# Clinical Scientist – Radiotherapy > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-scientist-radiotherapy/1b7498c3-3f80-4f2c-9293-84ed5413226a - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-scientist-radiotherapy/1b7498c3-3f80-4f2c-9293-84ed5413226a.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Newcastle Upon Tyne - **Region:** North East and Yorkshire - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Health science services - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-18T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-21T23:02:06.194Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Tyne_Wear/Freeman_Hospital/The_Newcastle_upon_Tyne_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Radiotherapy_Physics_FH/Radiotherapy_Physics_FH-v8013948 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8013948?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.newcastle-hospitals.org.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Radiotherapy Physics Group at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) is looking for a Registered Radiotherapy Clinical Scientist to join our team. NCCC runs services at both the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle and Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle and provides a highly specialised clinical service for the treatment of cancer patients. The successful candidate will be based primarily at the Freeman Hospital but would be required to work occasionally in the Carlisle site. - Interview Date Tuesday 07 July 2026 - 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week - You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy.  Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy NO AGENCIES PLEASE ### Main duties of the job As the successful candidate you will contribute to the whole range of our radiotherapy physics clinical and scientific services, including planning, imaging, radiation dosimetry, quality assurance, radiobiology, radiation protection and teaching, as well as service development and research projects. You will play a significant role in ensuring that patients receive optimised and timely radiotherapy. You will be expected to lead projects and proven experience in taking projects from inception to completion will be an advantage. You will advise, supervise and train a range of other staff groups in areas that you specialise in. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The NCCC is one of the leading radiotherapy centres in the UK. We are the first to use MR-only planning for radiotherapy and are one of the few radiotherapy centres with a dedicated MR scanner. Our range of advanced treatment methods on our state of the art fleet of Varian units includes SRS, SABR, VMAT, IMRT, TBI, TSEI and SGRT. We have recently introduced HyperSight imaging on our newest linacs and are developing our on-line adaptive radiotherapy processes across a range of treatments. We have a strong and developing brachytherapy service and our growing computing group is leading major automation projects. NCCC is a reference site for advanced SRS practices with Brainlab Elements and we have an excellent culture of clinical trials involvement. We have a strong teaching pedigree linked with Newcastle University, delivering the national STP academic MSc course, oncologist FRCR teaching and local STP and Route-2 physicist training. - You will contribute to a wide range of radiotherapy physics clinical and scientific services, including planning, imaging, brachytherapy, radiobiology and radiation protection and clinical scientific computing. - You will have a significant role in ensuring that treatment plans accurately predict the delivered dose and that the delivery equipment operates to the expected standard for clinical needs. - You will be required to communicate highly complex and sensitive information to a range of people, including to scientific, technical, management and on occasion patients and relatives using language suited to each. - You will work closely with the team at the Carlisle site and will on occasion spend time at the Carlisle site. - You will provide scientific and technical leadership in your specific areas of research and development. - You will maintain and develop high standards of service provision throughout your area of specialty. - You will contribute to the development and monitoring procedures and practices, to ensure that quality is maintained and information is stored and communicated appropriately. - You will actively contribute to, and at times take a leading role in, research and development activities for healthcare advancement across a range of specialist areas involving multiple team members from a range of disciplines. - You will supervise trainee clinical scientists or technologists within the service and contribute to the management, development and training of other staff. - You will teach on our Clinical Scientist and FRCR academic training courses and train and coach on our STP teaching programme. ## Job Details The Radiotherapy Physics Group at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) is looking for a Registered Radiotherapy Clinical Scientist to join our team. NCCC runs services at both the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle and Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle and provides a highly specialised clinical service for the treatment of cancer patients. The successful candidate will be based primarily at the Freeman Hospital but would be required to work occasionally in the Carlisle site. ## Job Description As the successful candidate you will contribute to the whole range of our radiotherapy physics clinical and scientific services, including planning, imaging, radiation dosimetry, quality assurance, radiobiology, radiation protection and teaching, as well as service development and research projects. You will play a significant role in ensuring that patients receive optimised and timely radiotherapy. You will be expected to lead projects and proven experience in taking projects from inception to completion will be an advantage. You will advise, supervise and train a range of other staff groups in areas that you specialise in. ## Responsibilities The NCCC is one of the leading radiotherapy centres in the UK. We are the first to use MR-only planning for radiotherapy and are one of the few radiotherapy centres with a dedicated MR scanner. Our range of advanced treatment methods on our state of the art fleet of Varian units includes SRS, SABR, VMAT, IMRT, TBI, TSEI and SGRT. We have recently introduced HyperSight imaging on our newest linacs and are developing our on-line adaptive radiotherapy processes across a range of treatments. We have a strong and developing brachytherapy service and our growing computing group is leading major automation projects. NCCC is a reference site for advanced SRS practices with Brainlab Elements and we have an excellent culture of clinical trials involvement. We have a strong teaching pedigree linked with Newcastle University, delivering the national STP academic MSc course, oncologist FRCR teaching and local STP and Route-2 physicist training. ## Person Specification ### Skills & Abilities **Essential** - Ability to interpret complex technical information and undertake complex calculation and data analysis - Good written and oral communication and presentation skills - Excellent team-working skills and the ability to work independently - Good IT skills, appropriate for scientific analysis and presentation data - Teaching, training and mentoring skills - Experience of research and development and solving complex problems - Ability to give specialised scientific technical advice to colleagues, senior clinicians and other professionals ### Knowledge & Experience **Essential** - Knowledge of Clinical Governance issues including ethical and regulatory considerations - Extensive and up to date knowledge of radiation physics applied to radiotherapy - Good knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, and radiation physics applied to radiotherapy - Good knowledge & experience of scientific method, data collection, and analysis of data using standard tools and software - Knowledge of scientific theory, legislation, standards, guidance and safety principles relevant to working area - Good understanding of equipment and process QA, advanced treatment planning and imaging in radiotherapy development **Desirable** - Experience of performing, publishing & presenting research - Experience of preparing grant applications - Good publication record of research in peer reviewed journal papers ### Qualifications & Education **Essential** - Honours Degree in an appropriate physical science, to a minimum of Second Class - Appropriate post-graduate degree at master’s level, or equivalent level of specialist knowledge and experience - The post holder is expected to be a registered Clinical Scientist (HCPC) or be on a pathway where registration is expected in less than 6 months following the agreed start date ## Documents - [newcastle staff benefits (pdf, 274.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2721) - [behaviour and civility charter (pdf, 93.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2922) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 241.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10300332) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.